very thorough process over the last month, meeting with a lot of stakeholders in this, including the nra, listened to proposals from all quarters and they presented me now with a list of sensible common sense steps that can be taken to make sure that the kinds of violence we saw at newtown doesn't happen again. i'm going to be meeting with the vice president today. i expect to have a fuller presentation later in the week, to give people some specifics about what i think we need to do. my starting point is not to worry about the politics. my starting point is to focus on what makes sense, what works. what should we be doing to make sure that our children are safe and that we're reducing the incidents of gun violence. and i think we can do that in a sensible way, that comports with the second amendment. and then members of congress i think are going to have to have a debate and examine their own conscience because, if in fact, and i believe this is true, everybody across party lines was as deeply moved and saddened as i was by what happened in newtown, then, you know, we're going to have t